re: #73 wheat-dogg

I’ve watched the first two segments so far, up to 1963 and the JFK assassination. I’ve learned several things I never knew before, since I was only 7 when JFK died. For example, the incredibly corrupt Diem regime,which got so bad the USA told the South Vietnamese generals, do what you will, we have no say in the matter.

Several of the US experts interviewed said it was obvious from the very beginning that a war with the North was a losing proposition, but no president wanted to admit to it. So, we stayed with it far longer than was logical.

I’ve pissed off a few Vietnamese-Americans when I condemned Ngo Dinh Diem which they see with rose-tinted glasses. Of course, this was over in Garden Grove, CA, otherwise known as “Little Saigon”.

How can anyone support such a repressive regime like that? Especially a Catholic one that literally attempted to wipe out Buddhism in the country?